Petunia, I think that neck tattoos are about looking tough. That's a kind of sensitive area of the body for a tattoo, so it's basically saying that the wearer doesn't care about a little pain.

What I've really noticed about the players this postseason is jut how much facial hair they have. They wouldn't make good presidential candidates, since it's been about a century since we've had a president with facial hair.

So I was reading a sample of the Steve Jobs bio on my Kindle, I accidentally bought the book, but when I had a chance to cancel the purchase I demurred. I'm not a devotee, but it's an interesting enough read so far. I think it's good that with all of the Jobs worship over the last ten years, we now get an unvarnished look at what a dick he could be. (And Jobs was fully aware of this.) 99% of the people who idolize him could never work for him more than a week or 2.

Apparently the occupy Madison types have moved to the parking lot of a former car dealership.

Which was purchased by the city for redevelopment, and has been suggested by a prominent homeless advocacy group as a potential daytime homeless shelter for winter, since the two most-used locations will be unavailable.

The Capitol cafeteria, which was almost taken over by homeless people on cold days, has been closed since the spring tantrum, and the central library is closing in a couple of weeks for a long renovation.

But one would think that a progressive, tolerant, liberal city like Madison would have other options, plus a sympathetic city administration, right?

Nope! The mayor has vetoed the idea of using the empty car dealership building as a shelter.

Wonder what he'll do about the protestors now camped in the parking lot?

What Cards did to Texas is nothing compared to what Obama will do to Perry. The Senator from MO is a big fan of the POTUS. We see victories for us everywhere. Today the world series and tomorrow the WH. It is all written for us.

It wasn't quite up to the exhilaration of game 6, but a good show overall! One of the ladies watching with us is from St. Louis and went to school with Freese, so she was perfectly stoked by the end. (One of her friends who had Freese's mom as a teacher wrote on Facebook: "I wish I was nicer to Mrs. Freese in 7th grade!")

I read that earlier and blogged about it. I think it's funny that they're making that criticism of Herman Cain of all people! A man who's been a ballistics expert in the Navy, on the board of the Kansas City Fed, and the CEO of Burger King and Godfather's pizza is the same man who "knows his place." If only more black people knew their place they'd be a lot better off.

'68 Tigers. 30 game winner Denny McClain, although Mickey Lolich was the star with three wins including a game seven win over the Cards HOF Bob Gibson, who set the record for lowest ERA for a seaon that year.

I remember listening to it in grade school...transistor radio in my desk, earphone wire run under my shirt and up my sleeve. Sat with my hand covering my ear holding my head. Never got caught.

The permit, which expired Wednesday at noon, required Occupy Madison protesters to relocate from their current space at 30 West Mifflin Street, also called 30 on the Square.

"A neighboring hotel's staff alleged voiced concerns about having to recently escort hotel employees to and from bus stops late at night due to inappropriate behavior, such as public masturbation, from street protesters."

Best new of Friday: Successful launch of NPP. Hope the post-launch check-out goes well too.

One of my jobs in the Navy was to catch the photo from polar-orbiting NOAA satellites while we were at sea. Sometimes that's all the weather info we had, although a lot of mid-ocean weather forecasting is pretty simple when you're mainly just concerned about tomorrow.